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Bureaucratic Control and the Soft Budget Constraint
Bai, Chong-En; Wang, Yijiang - 1998
In the hierarchy of China's state sector, both before and during the current reform period, government bureaucrats select and supervise state-owned enterprise (SOE) managers. The incentive problem of SOE managers has been studied carefully, but that of the bureaucrats has not. This paper uses a...
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The role of simplification and information in college decisions : results from the H&R Block FAFSA experiment
Bettinger, Eric; Terry, Bridget; Oreopoulos, Philip; … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003889731
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Political alignment and bureaucratic pay
Fiva, Jon H.; Geys, Benny; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; … - 2019
We study the private gains to bureaucrats from their political alignment with elected politicians. Whereas existing studies generally rely on proxies for politician-bureaucrat political alignment, a rare feature of our data allows measuring it directly since 27% of bureaucrats ran for political...
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Bureaucratic Corruption and Mass Media
Suphachalasai, Suphachol - 2005
This paper investigates the relationship between a bureaucracy and mass media industry, and its implications to corruption. We develop a bureaucratic model of corruption with mass media. A representative profit maximizing media firm seeks for corruption news to be printed and sold. Channels...
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The limits of meritocracy : screening bureaucrats under imperfect verifiability
Suárez Serrato, Juan Carlos; Wang, Xiao Yu; Zhang, Shuang - In: Journal of development economics 140 (2019), pp. 223-241
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The Limits of Meritocracy : Screening Bureaucrats Under Imperfect Verifiability
Suárez Serrato, Juan Carlos - 2016
Meritocracies that aim to identify high-ability bureaucrats are less effective when performance is imperfectly observed. First, we show meritocratic governments forgo output maximization when they design incentives that screen for ability. This trade-off has empirical implications that reveal...
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The Limits of Meritocracy : Screening Bureaucrats Under Imperfect Verifiability
Suárez Serrato, Juan Carlos - 2016
Does bureaucratic ability predict promotion in governments? We show that self-reported performance in enforcing the One Child Policy predicts mayoral promotion in China. However, misreporting handicaps screening—a non-manipulated performance measure does not predict promotion. We show that...
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The Zeal of the Outgroup : Loyalty Signaling and Bureaucratic Compliance in China’s Anti-Rightist Campaign (1957–1958)
Qian, Jingyuan; Bai, Steve - 2021
One puzzle that haunts comparative politics scholars is the variation in the intensity of state coercion in authoritarian regimes. Why are some bureaucrats more heavy-handed in their use of force than others? In this paper, we propose a novel theory to explain the unevenness of bureaucratic...
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The Role of Simplification and Information in College Decisions : Results from the H&R Block Fafsa Experiment
Bettinger, Eric - 2010
experimental treatments designed to test of the importance of simplification and information using a random assignment research … financial aid. Families were then given an estimate of their eligibility for government aid as well as information about local … postsecondary options. A second randomly-chosen group of individuals received only personalized aid eligibility information but did …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150861
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The Role of Simplification and Information in College Decisions : Results from the H&R Block FAFSA Experiment
Bettinger, Eric P. - 2009
experimental treatments designed to test of the importance of simplification and information using a random assignment research … financial aid. Families were then given an estimate of their eligibility for government aid as well as information about local … postsecondary options. A second randomly-chosen group of individuals received only personalized aid eligibility information but did …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463289